| Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...once'." " I do" suspect' liim-not' withstand" ing." "ft can"not be done'." EXAMPLES OF THE SIXTH STAUE. Society - never - advances. It recedes - as fast -...- on the other. It undergoes - continual - changes ; but - this change - is not - amelioration. For everything - that is given - something - is taken.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on ihe improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparenl, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no map improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes ; it... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 pages
...work and its destiny done, and a sublimer system prepared to take its place. Emerson somewhere says, " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 380 pages
...purchased by a corresponding physical decay. This alarm has had its best statement from Emerson. " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. .... What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 388 pages
...purchased by a corresponding physical decay. This alarm has had its best statement from Emerson. " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. .... What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. ^ Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barl barous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. .It recedes as fast on one...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken, "^society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What... | |
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